Why did you make the Mega server on an already established realm instead of make a new one and let us compete for names FAIRLY?
I’m in a top 10 speedrun guild in the world on Heat 3 MC and you just killed my drive to play SoD.
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Now I’m not defending the moves as I didn’t agree with them the first time they did it, but do you think it would have gone any better having ALL servers cluster-f into one of two new servers?
Their servers would have melted down.
I don’t care, that’s not my problem. THEY FORCED the move to a new server and condemned the old ones to die. They took my name without even giving the option to allow two of the same name and hyphen it with [Lone Wolf] or whatever server you’re from.
The person who has my name is either a level 1 created yesterday because they never locked the creation like they said after Tuesday’s maintenance or it’s some nobody that doesn’t even have a log of a raid up. It’s BS!
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This is what gets me. Blizzard stated up front that they’d free up names of inactive characters and would prevent new characters from spinning up, but it seems like neither of those statements were true.
I get that there’s a lot on their plate as they try to push 3 major changes on Classic servers at the end of the quarter, but they need to correct this.
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Exactly. After Tuesday’s maintenance they botched the lockout they had active and people were able to make level 1’s before the transfers opened (which they corrected too late). This reeks of incompetence, HOW could you have not seen this coming?
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As I said I agree, but I don’t know if the OTHER way would have gone any better. This way seemed LESS problematic and it is still a crap chute. That’s all I am saying. It would have likely gone way worse.
And yet you want to quit the game over something as minor and cosmetic as your character’s name.
Curious.
Either you’re lying or deeply autistic.
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I also wish there was a way to have a fair competition for names, but I guess there’s sense to the narrative that corralling everyone else onto the two biggest servers would cause the least waves. I liked one poster’s suggestion of dictating it by /played time on characters with the same name, but we both know Blizzard isn’t going to implement that.
I’ll miss this name mostly because the other ones I have in mind are longer and I really like squeezing as much as I can out of the 255 character limit for macros advertising my professions. Oh well, time to relearn most names of people in my guild.
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Neither. And you do realize that your argument about it not being a big deal works both ways, right?
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Perhaps his name is important because of what that name accomplished?
I totally get it tbh.
Maybe I’m known as the server biggest ganker, and my name is important to my playstyle and perhaps is a part of the enjoyment?
Blizzard doesn’t care about fair, they only care about getting your sub for as little effort on their end as possible. This is a perfect example of how they always are, always have been.
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so because ur name will be different, you cant speed run anymore? lol people that play this game are truly the dregs of society.
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I don’t even think they care about the sub, they care about in-game store purchases and that’s about it. The average store spender is around $20k USD lifetime, whereas a sub since 2005 is only $4k.
No Dreg, I am annoyed that Blizzard didn’t do what they said they were going to do and open up name reclaims, block new character creation AND they didn’t even launch the mega server it in the best way possible (which would be a new server), either.
Dregs like you who defend this and shut down legitimate criticism and can’t even spell is why you come to a forum thread whining about Devs to whine about society.
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well enjoy your name change lol i get to keep mine
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Worst part is a dev confirmed the name reclamation isn’t working as intended on the eu forums. Doubt we will hear anything more
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Your no-name from Wild Growth not running ANY raids?
I am sorry that happened. Names matter. I have had mine in every version I have played since Vanilla 
got a link?
Same, thanks man.
I got my name on every SoD PvP realm, but I didn’t foresee Blizzard MAKING THE RPPVP SERVER the mega server. Anyway, the person with my name is either a lvl 1 created in the last 2 days after Blizzard accidentally disabled the lock on creation after Weekly Realm Maintenance before fixing it or it’s a no-body character like @Cláude here who does no endgame content.
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The servers not working. All name variations taken, rebuilding guilds, the character transfer error fiasco, I still have characters untransfered from last night that say error. Transfer server not showing up.
Blizzard has really been screwing up lately, they balance this game around the wrong things, nerf classes that dont need it and buff classes that dont need it, and then all of this for what? To reduce their requirement for servers? This F’ed this up big.